Podcast: Fake news and Trump’s trashing of political norms

How worried should we be about President-elect Donald Trump’s unwillingness to establish a protective press pool? And for that matter, how big a threat is Facebook’s inability to police fake news?

We dissected that and more on the first episode of The Kicker, a new, weekly podcast where we’ll discuss media news and important questions facing journalism today. This week, I’m joined by Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope and Associate Editor Nausicaa Renner.

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ProPublica last year published a widely cited article linking Trump’s CIA nominee Gina Haskel directly to the waterboarding and torture of Abu Zubaydah when she was in charge of a CIA black site prison in Thailand in 2002. Yesterday, ProPublica was forced...